Vanilla Ice Cream

I bought myself an ice cream maker yesterday. It's very much a luxury item, but I'm really looking forward to experimenting with different flavours and recipes! And TF is excited at the prospect of actually having interesting flavours of lactose-free ice cream available. I just started with a basic vanilla ice cream to test the machine and get a feel for this whole ice cream making thing. I am very pleased with the results so far and am super excited to try some more complex recipes.

Basic Vanilla Ice Cream

3/4 c. milk (I used 2%)

1/2 c. sugar

1 1/2 c. heavy (35%) cream

2 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

1. Combine milk and sugar and stir until dissolved.

2. Stir in cream and vanilla.

Mixture can be poured into ice cream maker at this point or chilled overnight. I chose to put mine in the fridge overnight since I was still waiting for the ice cream maker bowl to freeze anyway.

3. Turn on ice cream maker.

4. Pour mixture into ice cream maker bowl and allow it to churn for 25 minutes.

Ice cream will be extremely soft at this point. It's technically edible, but will liquefy almost immediately once served.

5. Quickly scoop the ice cream out of the ice cream maker and into another container and transfer to the freezer. Ice cream should firm up in an hour or two.